Veethree EGM Installation Manual

Manual is about: Marine Engine Gateway Monitor

Summary of EGM

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    1 marine engine gateway monitor (egm) installation guide.

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    2 contents 1. Installing the displays ............................................................................... 3 1.1 mounting the display .............................................................................. 3 1.2 power connections to the display (all engine types) .....................

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    3 1. Installing the displays the egm supports up to three engine types (non-electric, j1939 or nmea 2000) and each display can be allocated to be port (or single), starboard or centre. When mounting the displays the allocation of position is not important as this is done during the commissioning seq...

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    4 finding each end, and making sure they have a nmea 2000 termination device at each end of the backbone. If there is no pre-existing backbone you will need to fit this before connecting the display. If you have a dual station system you will need to connect to the nmea 2000 network to share data be...

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    5 harness. The rudder sensor ground is connected to the spare black wire from the display (used for all analogue senders). 1.7 attaching to a fuel level sender the fuel level (one tank per display) can be measured from standard two wire fuel senders. The sender signal should be connected to the blue...

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    6 2 configuring system settings on completion of section 1, you are now ready to commission the system which will involve accessing the menu items described below to configure the various options. But first you will apply power to the system and check that the display(s) all power up correctly. Refe...

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    7 • analogue settings. • fuel management. • diagnostics. • restore defaults. 2.2 engine id the engine id can be changed to either port/single engine, starboard engine or a centre engine, select the option that correctly describes the engine that the display is connected to. 2.3 data sources the ‘dat...

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    8 will need to set the engine settings to analogue and the speed setting to nmea 0183..

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    9 2.4 nmea 2000 settings in this menu you can choose the fluid level instance that is read from the nmea 2000 network by the display. You can also, choose whether the gateway will be enabled or disabled, if enabled it transmits based on its engine id. The fluid level is used to ‘tag’ the fuel level ...

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    10 2.5 j1939 settings source address one: this is the address of the j1939 engine, and is used to restrict what sources the egm will accept j1939 from. It can also be set to glb which means it will accept data from any source. Source address two: this functions the same way as source address one, bu...

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    11 2.6 analogue settings the ‘analogue settings’ menu allows you to calibrate the signals from a non- electronic engine. Rpm calibration is a simple multiplier, have the engine running on idle and adjust using the plus or minus until the number in brackets is the same as the rpm shown on your gauge,...

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    12 the screen title shows you which channel you have selected at the top. You then have three settings you can change, it also shows you the raw value the egm is measuring, as well as the final data value, based on the chosen calibration. The first setting is if there is a gauge present. The second ...

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    13 2.7 fuel management settings the fuel management uses either data from a nmea 2000 engine or it estimates the fuel rate based on the rpm if you are connected to a nmea 2000 engine set the fuel rate source to nmea 2000, this should be relatively accurate. When connected to a non- electronic engine...

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    14 2.8 diagnostics the ‘diagnostics menu’ allows you to view all of the information that your display is receiving from every network input. The can viewer will allow you to check if and where the raw can data is being received and sent to. The uart viewer will allow you to view the raw nmea 0183 da...

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    15 the data viewer allows you to view all of the data that the display is reading. The data viewer will show you the data coming into the display, the units the data is displayed in and where the unit is getting its data from. 2.9 restore defaults at the bottom of the system configuration menu you w...